Grok Imagine

Fast, prompt-faithful image generation with a higher-fidelity Quality tier when the frame matters.

Social Media GraphicsEditorial IllustrationBlog Header ImagesProduct Photography
First-gen Grok ImagineGeneration
Standard and QualityTiers
35 (Standard) · 80 (Quality)Credits
Image WorkshopRuns in

Professional images for every use case

Social Media Graphics

Social Media Graphics.

Produce campaign visuals quickly across feeds, stories, announcements, and recurring content series.
Editorial Illustration

Editorial Illustration.

Turn article themes into clear, engaging visuals with controlled composition, mood, and symbolism.
Blog Header Images

Blog Header Images.

Generate distinctive wide-format headers that support the topic without overwhelming headlines or page layouts.
Product Photography

Product Photography.

Create polished product scenes and campaign variations without staging a separate shoot for every concept.
Stock-Style Photos

Stock-Style Photos.

Build useful lifestyle imagery for articles, newsletters, presentations, and frequent publishing schedules.

Fast generation for high-volume publishing

Grok Imagine Standard is designed for rapid iteration when you need many usable concepts, variations, or supporting images. At 35 credits per generation, it fits recurring social and editorial production.

  • •35 credits per Standard generation
  • •Fast concept and variation cycles
  • •Useful for recurring content calendars
  • •Handles photographic and illustrated styles
  • •Well suited to volume production
Fast generation for high-volume publishing

Quality mode for important final frames

Choose Grok Imagine Quality when realism, detail, typography, or finish matters more than iteration speed. It provides the higher-fidelity option within this generation for 80 credits.

  • •80 credits per Quality generation
  • •Higher-detail final imagery
  • •Stronger short-text rendering
  • •More refined lighting and texture
  • •Better fit for hero and campaign assets
Quality mode for important final frames

Clear control through detailed prompts

Describe the subject, setting, palette, lighting, camera angle, and mood in ordinary language. Grok Imagine follows specific visual instructions well, helping teams move from a written brief to a focused draft.

  • •Strong prompt adherence
  • •Direct control of mood and lighting
  • •Specific composition instructions
  • •Photographic and illustrated outputs
  • •Easy variation through prompt changes
Clear control through detailed prompts

Flexible formats and reference-led edits

Create at 1K or 2K resolution in square, portrait, landscape, and other common aspect ratios. Image inputs also support natural-language edits, restyling, and compositions using up to three source images.

  • •1K and 2K output options
  • •Square, portrait, and landscape formats
  • •One to three source images for edits
  • •Natural-language image changes
  • •Style transfer and compositing support
Flexible formats and reference-led edits

How it works

Describe your image
1

Describe your image

Write what the image should show, including the subject, setting, composition, lighting, mood, and intended placement. Specific visual directions give the model a clearer production brief.

Choose tier and format
2

Choose tier and format

Use Standard at 35 credits for fast iteration, or Quality at 80 credits when the final frame needs more detail. Select the aspect ratio and resolution that match your publishing channel.

Generate and refine
3

Generate and refine

Generate the image, compare the result with your brief, and adjust concrete details in the prompt. You can also provide an existing image and describe the edit or restyle you need.

Prompts to steal

Bold vertical social graphic for a summer city festival, coral and cobalt palette, diverse crowd, paper-cut shapes, clear focal point, bright daylight, polished editorial design

Social Media Graphics

Editorial illustration about remote work reshaping small cities, laptop beside a miniature lively main street, clean geometric forms, warm morning light, sophisticated magazine palette

Editorial Illustration

Wide blog header about sustainable urban transport, bicycles and electric buses moving through a leafy modern city, airy composition, ample negative space, crisp editorial photography

Blog Header Images

Premium citrus sparkling-water can on pale stone, sliced grapefruit and condensation droplets, soft golden sunlight, clean peach background, commercial product photography, sharp label area

Product Photography

Natural lifestyle photo of a small editorial team planning a content calendar in a bright studio, candid expressions, soft window light, realistic details, balanced horizontal composition

Stock-Style Photos

Four-panel social campaign for a neighborhood food market, unified coral and teal palette, product close-up, vendor portrait, street scene, illustrated announcement, polished cohesive art direction

Fast generation for high-volume publishing

Top community creations

Recent Grok Imagine images shared by the BudgetPixel community.

Photorealistic painterly rendering combined with crisp dynamic linework and bold high-contrast shadow work, creating a fusion of cinematic realism and graphic-novel impact. The result should manifest as luminous directional lighting, saturated retro-modern color, expressively sculpted shading, and simplified atmospheric backgrounds that thrust the figure forward with dramatic clarity and surreal elegance. A commanding comic book female villain with sharp confident features, an imperious smirk, and a sweeping dramatic costume, posed towering above the viewer, chin lifted, locking direct unflinching eye contact, one gloved hand raised mid-gesture as energy crackles around her, radiating control and menace. Scene set in a shadowed industrial lair during a stormy night, with a charged electric atmosphere and drifting mist, featuring a steep ground-level vantage looking upward, simplified looming architecture, rim-lit haze, and shafts of directional light slicing through darkness to silhouette and frame the dominant figure.@justrob
Dramatic single-source tenebrism plunging the surroundings into a near-black void, combined with raw, unidealized rendering of flesh and visceral skin texture, creating a fusion of classical chiaroscuro and contemporary atmospheric grit. The result should manifest as moody painterly realism: warm rim light catching wet hair and collarbones, a muted earthen palette, expressive mark-making, and an unflinching psychological intensity carved out by deep shadow. A determined blonde artistic figure with a dirt-streaked, bruised face and a healing scrape across one cheekbone, hair pulled back with damp strands falling loose, leaning forward mid-breath with parted lips and a fierce, locked-on gaze, wearing a simple dark fitted top, glistening with sweat across the collarbones and shoulders. Scene set in a cavernous derelict industrial warehouse during deep night, with a heavy, oppressive atmosphere of smoke and stillness, featuring a near-black background swallowing distant structural beams, a single shaft of warm overhead light isolating the figure, and faint cold reflections glinting off unseen surfaces.@justrob
Grok Imagine community creation@DavidP
A fusion of classical portraiture where dramatic chiaroscuro lighting meets selective metallic accent techniques through smooth tonal gradations, luminous edge highlighting, and strategic warm metallic streaks that enhance the natural flow and dimensionality of original elements while preserving the integrity of the subject and setting woman in a bikini catching a wave, surfing in hawaii@justrob
Grok Imagine community creation@DavidP
Grok Imagine community creation@DavidP
Create a **premium 7-inch single record cover, 1:1 square composition**, dark gothic fantasy with cinematic album-art sophistication. Use **Image 1 as the exact visual reference for Cordelia (“Cordy”) Voss** and **Image 2 as the exact visual reference for Lilitha Noctis**. Preserve their recognizable faces, hairstyles, clothing, proportions, and overall character identity. Cordelia and Lilitha stand together in a tense, intimate composition, suggesting **danger, obsession, power, and an unexpected bond**. Cordelia positioned slightly forward, Lilitha just behind her, both looking toward camera with contrasting expressions: Cordelia fierce and determined, Lilitha calm, ancient, amused, and quietly terrifying. Their poses should imply that either could become the other's greatest weapon. Background: **blackened gothic cathedral ruins**, fractured stone, drifting crimson mist, subtle supernatural glow, faint occult markings and shadowy architectural details. Add restrained metallic textures, scratches, aged paper grain, and deep ink-black shadows. Typography: elegant but aggressive gothic/industrial title lettering: **I’LL MAKE A WEAPON OUT OF YOU** Small premium record details: **IRONBOUND RECORDS · 45 RPM · LIMITED EDITION · IB-07**, tiny catalogue markings, ornamental borders and authentic vintage pressing-label details. **Visual style:** gothic album cover, dark fantasy editorial photography, painterly realism, cinematic chiaroscuro, ink-and-oil textures, subtle crimson accents, sophisticated rather than cheesy, premium collectible 7-inch sleeve, dramatic composition, highly detailed, atmospheric, tactile print texture. **Important:** Image 1 = Cordelia reference. Image 2 = Lilitha reference. Keep both characters faithful to their reference images while redesigning the environment and composition around them. No extra characters, no weapons obscuring their faces, no excessive text, no cartoon aesthetic.@monkeydude69
Grok Imagine community creation@DavidP
Grok Imagine community creation@DavidP
Cinematic volumetric lighting + dry-brush tempera realism + post-apocalyptic wasteland, where cinematic volumetric backlighting carves luminous depth through suspended haze and particulate atmosphere, dry-brush granulation produces tactile austere surfaces via fine layered tonal restraint, and a scorched, sun-bleached desolation pervades the scene. The fusion manifests as high-contrast chiaroscuro pierced by amber shafts, muted ochre-and-umber palettes weathered toward rust, and granular matte textures dissolving into heat-shimmered air, transforming any content through arid luminosity, oxidized earth tones, and quiet apocalyptic stillness. A pirate woman, with an open coat, wearing a tricorner cap Standing behind the helmsman, scanning the horizon for danger@justrob
Grok Imagine community creation@DavidP
Grok Imagine community creation@crabmouse
Grok Imagine community creation@DavidP
Grok Imagine community creation@crabmouse
Grok Imagine community creation@EternaSky
A fusion of Dave McKean+Francis Bacon+analog distortion where photographic elements dissolve into painterly distortions, featuring deliberate signal degradation, smeared textures that suggest motion or decay, and heavy impasto techniques rendered digitally with physical-looking media artifacts that enhance emotional impact without altering subject identity or environment.@crabmouse
Photo relaistic sci-fi comic book page, 3 dynamic panels., 4K sharp detail. Panel 1: Medium close-up, low angle. Striking busty supermodel with sharp high cheekbones, glossy full rose lips, sculpted platinum blonde pixie cut, wears a fitted matte black flight suit, leans back in worn chrome cockpit, warm amber console glow on her face. Panel 2: Wide establishing shot. Sleek silver starship cuts through deep indigo nebula, distant burning stars streak past, cold cosmic void fills frame. Panel 3: Tight dramatic shot. Her jaw set determined, grips heavy scuffed blaster raised high, flashing red alert lights wash the cockpit, bold text box reads *PIRATES SPOTTED* in block yellow capitals.@crabmouse
Vittore Carpaccio + Paolo Uccello + Gentile Bellini, where Carpaccio's jewel-toned narrative precision should render every detail of armor and creature, Uccello's geometric foreshortening should drive the lance and rearing horse into dynamic depth, and Bellini's atmospheric Venetian topography should build the luminous distance. The fusion should manifest as an early-Renaissance tempera panel under warm aged varnish, processional clarity meeting dramatic perspectival tension. A young golden-haired knight in burnished plate armor, mounted on a dark rearing warhorse draped in crimson caparison, lance lowered and thrust clean through the open jaws of a low-crouching winged dragon, its membranous bat-wings spread wide, serpentine tail coiling, body pinned against the earth as the charge connects in one decisive moment. Scene set on an arid coastal plain during pale overcast daylight, with a still, solemn atmosphere of aftermath, featuring a fantastical towered city across the water, a distant red-robed maiden watching at the right, scattered bones, skulls, and small reptiles strewn across the dragon's grim foreground, and a faint luminous harbor receding into hazy hills.@justrob
Weathered metalwork and gear-driven steampunk aesthetic provide rugged mechanical authenticity, historical atmosphere adds aged depth and industrial grandeur, and intricate pseudo-organic machinery brings ornate biomechanical detail. The fusion should manifest as richly engineered steampunk design featuring brass gears, riveted armor, exposed clockwork, copper piping, and Victorian-era industrial embellishments A pirate woman, with an open coat, wearing a tricorner cap Standing behind the helmsman, scanning the horizon for danger@justrob
Thick palette-knife impasto with vibrant mosaic-like strokes and luminous textured dabs, combined with moody atmospheric wet-media drips and tonal gray dissolves, creating a glowing rain-soaked nocturne. The result should manifest as refined elegant fashion-illustration linework fused with dreamlike textured surfaces, scattered light speckles, reflective wet ground, and a melancholic romantic luminosity A slender elegant woman with an upswept dark coiffure, poised in profile, wearing a fitted black sleeveless dress with a delicate tutu-like skirt and stiletto heels, holding an oversized midnight-blue parasol speckled with starlight over one shoulder Scene set in a misty garden at twilight, with a hushed dreamlike atmosphere, featuring a glowing multi-tiered pagoda with amber-lit windows, surrounding mushroom-shaped canopy structures, blossoming branches, scattered wildflowers, stone lanterns, and a wet reflective stone pathway@justrob

Pricing for Grok Imagine

Runs on credits — no per-model surcharges, no surprise billing.

80credits
per generation
80 credits per image
Show pricing details▾
ResolutionCredits
  • 1Kdefault80/ generation
  • 2K100/ generation

Credits work across every plan. See /pricing for credit packages.

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Use Grok Imagine via the API

Grok Imagine is available through the BudgetPixel developer API — the same model the studio runs, supporting text-to-image, and image editing / references. Pricing is metered in credits (35 credits per image), charged only on success, with an API key available on Premium plans and above.

curl -X POST https://api.budgetpixel.com/v1/images/grok-imagine-image \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BUDGETPIXEL_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"prompt": "your prompt here"}'
Read the API docsGet an API key

No code? Use Grok Imagine from Claude or Cursor

Grok Imagine is also available through the BudgetPixel MCP server. Connect your account to Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-enabled agent and generate with Grok Imagine by asking in plain language — same credits, same pricing, no code required.

Set up the MCP serverOr use it in ComfyUI, WordPress or Cursor →

Frequently asked questions

What is Grok Imagine?▾
Grok Imagine is xAI's first-generation image model for generating and editing visuals from natural-language instructions. This page pairs the fast Standard model with Grok Imagine Quality, its higher-fidelity tier.
Is this the Grok Imagine 2.0 model?▾
No. This page covers the first-generation Grok Imagine image model and its Quality tier. Grok Imagine 2.0 is a separate, newer model with its own page.
How does Grok Imagine work?▾
Enter a description of the subject, style, composition, lighting, and mood you want. The model generates an image from that brief, and you can refine the result by changing the prompt or supplying source images for editing.
How much does Grok Imagine cost?▾
Generations use credits, with the total depending on the tier you select. Standard is the economical choice for frequent iteration, while Quality uses more credits for a higher-fidelity result.
Should I use Grok Imagine Standard or Quality?▾
Use Standard at 35 credits when you need fast drafts, frequent social posts, or many visual options. Choose Quality at 80 credits for hero images, detailed editorial frames, polished product scenes, or designs containing short text.
How does Grok Imagine compare to other AI image generators?▾
Grok Imagine is positioned around speed, prompt adherence, and affordable volume production. Its two-tier workflow lets you iterate economically with Standard and reserve Quality for frames that need additional detail and finish.
What resolutions and aspect ratios does Grok Imagine support?▾
The model supports 1K and 2K output. Available formats include common ratios such as 1:1, 16:9, 9:16, 4:3, 3:4, and 2:1, making it practical for social, editorial, and web placements.
Does Grok Imagine support reference images and editing?▾
Yes. You can provide existing images and describe changes in natural language, including restyling, object adjustments, and compositing. The Imagine image workflow supports between one and three source images for an edit.
Does Grok Imagine render text well inside images?▾
Quality mode offers stronger text rendering and is the better choice when short wording is important to the design. Keep text concise, spell it exactly in the prompt, and review every output before publishing.
Can I use Grok Imagine images commercially?▾
xAI's current terms allow generated outputs to be used commercially and assign output rights to the user where permitted by law. You remain responsible for your prompts, source images, third-party rights, required attribution, and compliance with the applicable terms.
Does Grok Imagine have an API?▾
Yes — Grok Imagine is available through the BudgetPixel developer API via the `POST /v1/images/grok-imagine-image` endpoint, supporting text-to-image, and image editing / references. Generate an API key from the developer console (available on Premium plans and above) and see the full reference at docs.budgetpixel.com.
How much does the Grok Imagine API cost?▾
API usage is billed in credits from the same balance your plan includes, at the standard metered rate: 35 credits per image. Failed generations are never charged. You can estimate any request's exact cost with POST /v1/cost before running it.
Can I use Grok Imagine with Claude or other AI agents (MCP)?▾
Yes — Grok Imagine is exposed through the BudgetPixel MCP server, so Claude, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent can generate with it from a plain-language request. Connect your account at budgetpixel.com/mcp; generations use the same credit balance and pricing as the web studio and the API.

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